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...went to the Maiden Bridge Playhouse near Albany for a summer of the real thing-washing out toilets, changing scenery, riding a goat manque across the stage in Teahouse of the August Moon. Back home, she ushered in Broadway theaters during Saturday matinee and evening performances. About then, she decided that she only had six months to live. "You really appreciate life when you know you're going to die," she discloses. But before the last cough, she began making the rounds of actors' workshops, consulting the New York City telephone directories for a suitable pseudonym, and unquestionably...
...refugee runner, ZIM added to its fleet a handsome new flagship. From St. Nazaire's Chantiers de 1'Atlantique, famed builder of the Normandie and France, it took delivery of the Shalom (Peace), a $20 million, 24,500-ton luxury liner that will make her maiden voyage to New York next month...
Either abuilding or on drawing boards in Germany are scores of new designs, ranging from conventional single-engine "bush" planes through corporate-size jets to medium-range airliners. But, though the Hamburger Flugzeugbau's new executive jet will make its maiden flight next month, most German planemakers are beginning to realize that the German aircraft indus try faces almost overwhelming competition in the present crowded world market. Their best bet, as they see it, is to try somehow to weather their present crisis by getting more licensing work. Meanwhile, hoping to get the jump on others, they plan...
Last week, rising to make his maiden speech in the Brazilian Senate, Senator Arnon de Mello, 52, looked uneasily toward the back of the chamber. "I will speak today," he began, "with my eyes turned to Senator Silvestre Péricles de Góes Monteiro, who . . . who . . . who has threatened to kill me today." "Swine," roared Góes Monteiro, 67, charging down the aisle. Mello drew his Smith & Wesson .38, ducked behind a seat-and fired twice. An old hand at political gunplay, Góes Monteiro whipped out his own .38, but another Senator jumped him before...
Except for his swearing-in, Mello made it a point to stay away from the Senate-until last week. Even then, he never made his maiden speech. After the gunplay, Mello faced a charge of homicide; Góes Monteiro was held for attempted assault with intent to kill. And the Senate passed a rule: from now on, all Senators will check their weapons at the door...